Dana's {dev}adventures

Dana Ciocan

Dana Ciocan

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I'm a Staff engineer who loves coding and also has many creative hobbies like sewing, crochet, cross stitch, DJing and gardening

Closures in JavaScript

Sep 14, 20246 min read

Are they still relevant? · JavaScript has some pretty interesting advanced concepts that take a while to get your head around when you first encounter...

Closures in JavaScript

Hoisting in JavaScript

Mar 13, 20245 min read

Next stop, the Temporal Dead Zone! · I am endlessly fascinated by the fact that JavaScript has become the language of the web. When I first learned about...

Hoisting in JavaScript

The power of tech meetups

Mar 2, 20245 min read

Why attending is so beneficial · I went to a meetup on Thursday - the amazing Fusion, based in Birmingham in the UK. We got treated to three great...

The power of tech meetups

Next.js pages vs app router

Feb 25, 202410 min read

The old vs the new: a high level comparison · Next.js v13, released in October 2022, caused a whole load of ruckus in the front end development world. In...

Next.js pages vs app router

React Server Components: is history repeating itself?

Feb 19, 202410 min read

Let's travel back in time and find out... · React Server Components are a hot topic in front end development right now and there's a fair bit of...

React Server Components: is history repeating itself?

What the heck is INP?

Feb 10, 20244 min read

And why you should care about it · If you've been working in the web space for a while and you have been doing work around performance, you are probably...

What the heck is INP?